[ltp] battery drain while asleep?

Yves-Alexis Perez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:16:44 +0100


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:25:03PM +0100, Igor V. Rafienko wrote:
> on Nov 14, 2008, 11:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
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> [ ... ]
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>> RAM eats up a lot of the power used doing S3 sleep.  The bigger the  
>> ammount of RAM, the bigger the ammount of power needed for 
>> self-refresh.
>
>
> I disagree. I noticed *no* measurable difference in power drain while in  
> suspend-to-ram between 1x 1GB stick and 1x 1GB stick +1x 512MB stick or  
> +1x 1GB stick. My T43 drains about 289mWh regardless.

I have 1×1GB and 1×2GB.
>
> To the OP: the single biggest contributor I've noticed was uhci/ehci usb  
> modules. Try removing them both and see if it helps.

Will try, thanks.
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Yves-Alexis